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Title: Greener Than You Think

Author: Ward Moore

Release Date: January 11, 2008 [EBook #24246]

Language: English

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GREENER THAN YOU THINK

Also by WARD MOORE

_Breathe the Air Again_

WARD MOORE

_Greener Than
You Think_

[Illustration]

WILLIAM SLOANE ASSOCIATES, INC.
_Publishers_ ....... _New York_

Copyright, 1947, by
WARD MOORE

_First Edition_

MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES

Transcriber's Note:

Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S.
copyright on this publication was renewed. The text intentionally
contains non-standard contractions, unhyphenated combination words
and other informal styles and spellings, which, except for minor
typographical errors, have all been transcribed as printed.

_For_
BECKY
1927-1937

"... I knew there was but one way; for his nose was as sharp as a
pen, and 'a babbled of green fields. 'How now, Sir John!' quoth I;
'what, man! be o' good cheer.' So 'a cried out, 'God, God, God!'
three or four times. Now I, to comfort him, bid him 'a should not
think of God; I hop'd there was no need to trouble himself with any
such thoughts yet...."
_Henry V_

_One:_ Albert Weener Begins 1

_Two:_ Consequences of a Discovery 47

_Three:_ Man Triumphant I 99

_Four:_ Man Triumphant II 159

_Five:_ The South Pacific Sailing Discovery 255

_Six:_ Mr Weener Sees It Through 327

Neither the vegetation nor people in this book are entirely fictitious.
But, reader, no person pictured here is you. With one exception. You,
Sir, Miss, or Madam--whatever your country or station--are Alber